Official Windows Whines and Weirdness Thread

rbarreira · 2004-02-12, 23:21

According to slashdot.org, the windows nt/2000 source code has been leaked to the net :D

Check it out here (if you dig in the comments for a while you'll already find the url which has the directory listing of the leaked source, which is about 2 MB in itself):

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...2/2114228&tid=

only_human · 2004-02-13, 00:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by rbarreira

According to slashdot.org, the windows nt/2000 source code has been leaked to the net :D

Check it out here (if you dig in the comments for a while you'll already find the url which has the directory listing of the leaked source, which is about 2 MB in itself):

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...2/2114228&tid=

I agree with the frequently stated opinion in the slashdot thread that the best thing to do is to never, never, never, look at that source code for the sake of any future software development that I might do.

only_human · 2004-02-13, 03:54

Groklaw has a discussion on this. That site has been a treasure to anyone following the SCO/Linux controversy.
Microsoft Denies Leaked Code
The site maintainer, Pamela Jones, or PJ as she is called there, strongly recommends against peeking at the code.

rbarreira · 2004-02-13, 13:25

Do you know what BitTorrent is?

only_human · 2004-02-14, 06:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by rbarreira

Do you know what BitTorrent is?

I think BitTorrent is great. I am using it at this moment to download a Fedora distribution. An interesting article on the about the utility and the author was published in the New York Times on the February 12th (File Sharing's New Face). Here is the slashdot on it: BitTorrent's Creator Bram Cohen Interviewed

It is an interesting read. Covers the application, implications, and the author Bram Cohen. Despite such a widely used utility, Bram Cohen had been in suprisingly poor financial circumstances until quite recently.

He notes that BitTorrent is not anonymous; that anonymity is "fundamentally antithetical to the architecture."

moo · 2004-09-24, 01:25

Does this picture look right LOL

E_tron · 2004-09-30, 02:22

figures doesn't it? I'm holding off service pack 2. It intrudes my computer a little too much(not to mention it adds TCG compatibility to Windows XP

)

moo · 2004-09-30, 03:00

frist whats tcg next its ok just a little anoying. it changes the green startup bar to blue like pro lol

Xyzzy · 2005-04-26, 19:18

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/6...e/default.mspx

ThomRuley · 2005-04-26, 23:17

What I've always wanted-windows that crashes in 64 bits instead of just 32 bits.

Why not switch to Linux and leave that overpriced Windows bull

behind?

moo · 2005-08-31, 04:34

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...30_203959.html
Looks like 06 will be the year of vista. Anyone got good catch names for that year like vista06 or something like that.

2004-02-12, 23:21	#1
rbarreira Oct 2003 Portugal B₁₆ Posts	Windows 2000/NT source code leaked to the net According to slashdot.org, the windows nt/2000 source code has been leaked to the net :D Check it out here (if you dig in the comments for a while you'll already find the url which has the directory listing of the leaked source, which is about 2 MB in itself): http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...2/2114228&tid=

2004-09-24, 01:25	#6
moo Jul 2004 Nowhere 809 Posts	Official Windows Whines and Weirdness Thread Does this picture look right LOL Attached Thumbnails

2005-04-26, 19:18	#9
Xyzzy "Mike" Aug 2002 3×2,741 Posts	Trade up to 64-bit Windows... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/6...e/default.mspx

2005-08-31, 04:34	#11
moo Jul 2004 Nowhere 809 Posts	Vista on the move http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews...30_203959.html Looks like 06 will be the year of vista. Anyone got good catch names for that year like vista06 or something like that.

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2004-02-13, 03:54	#3
only_human "Gang aft agley" Sep 2002 2×1,877 Posts	Groklaw has a discussion on this. That site has been a treasure to anyone following the SCO/Linux controversy. Microsoft Denies Leaked Code The site maintainer, Pamela Jones, or PJ as she is called there, strongly recommends against peeking at the code.

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2004-09-30, 02:22	#7
E_tron Sep 2002 Austin, TX 1000110001₂ Posts	figures doesn't it? I'm holding off service pack 2. It intrudes my computer a little too much(not to mention it adds TCG compatibility to Windows XP )

2004-09-30, 03:00	#8
moo Jul 2004 Nowhere 329₁₆ Posts	frist whats tcg next its ok just a little anoying. it changes the green startup bar to blue like pro lol

2005-04-26, 23:17	#10
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